Eva Rothschild at ACCA

The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) has announced the first Australian solo exhibition for the Irish-born, London-based artist Eva Rothschild, ahead of her appearance at the 2019 Venice Biennale where she will represent Ireland.

Opening on September 28 and running until November 25, Eva Rothschild brings together new sculptural commissions with recent work spanning the last decade of the artist’s diverse yet distinctive practice.

Shaped by a myriad of influences from minimal art of the 1960s and 70s to classical architecture, spiritualism and pop culture, Ms Rothschild has developed an international reputation for sculptural forms that are both striking and spare, as sharp geometric shapes morph into flamboyant, enigmatic compositions.

Stripped of excess, her abstract arrangements draw the mind into spaces where power, ritual, the architectural and the existential intersect.

Alongside the artist’s interest in the materiality of sculpture – encompassing ideas of form, mass and scale – is the questioning of the physicality of the body and its role both in the act of making, as well as experiencing and artwork.

Her striking forms, assembled from a variety of materials including concrete, leather, jesmonite, fabric and plastic, encourage an energetic, as well as aesthetic, response from the viewer.

Several works consider the social potential of sculpture as spaces in which to convene and converse – to relax within or, more actively, play.

“We are excited to bring this renowned international artist and her work to Melbourne at such a critical time in her career,” ACCA artistic director and CEO Max Delaney said. “The exhibition will present three dramatic new commissions created especially for ACCA’s expansive galleries, alongside recent works including the monumental Cosmos 2018.”

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